23 february

In February 23rd in our country is National army Day. It is the day for those who serve in army and defend our Motherland. But in school from Soviet Times we have one activity for boys. Each class buy presents for the boys and present them. And you can see all boys and male teachers get present on this day.
And another school and town activity on this day is called < Well come on Boys" contest. This is contest where some schools take part. the respresentation of each educational establishment have a team. In teams boys have a captain. And there are several tasks they should carry out. such as who fill make alot of push-up, rope draging, wrestling and etc. They team who is strongest will win.
The winning team will got o reginal one to compete with resonal teams.
this is about this holiday.

Video conference with Azerbaijani students

Video conference with Azerbaijani students
On February 9th, 2011 TEA Alumna Zebo Murodova and Coordinator Regina Sokolova held a wonderful and delightful Video conference via Skype with Azerbaijani students from Ismaili school #1 at ACQ-t. Students from Q-t schools #9.12, 29, lyceum #1 and Sarband’s secondary schools #1, 2 participated in this Video conference.
The aim of this web conference was to introduce Tajik and Azerbaijani students to each other, share information about school, subjects, extracurricular activities, hobbies and interests.

We are thanksful to American corner for hosing this VC. Students were so happy to participate in video conference. For some of them it was the first video conference and they wer very excited.

Now we have new friends. After this we will stay in touch with each other via e mail.

I want to thank Parvane Baratova for arranging this VC. Her studenst were very active and their english was very excellent. we hope we will have more such kind of VC in future.

Conference

Reading book

Inspiring children to Read books in American Corner.

On February 1st, 2011 ACQ-t held amazing and fantastic event dedicated to Children’s Authors and Illustrator Week. TEA Alumna Zebo Murodova inspired children of age 12-14 to read books.

She organized together with AC Coordinator the plan of the event dedicated to Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week. Among all kids fiction books we chose WHEN SOPHIE GETS ANGRY-REALLY, REALLY ANGRY…. by Molly Bang to read for kids.

During the event the following activities were held:

* Prediction (while reading each page of the book students predict what will happen next to Sophie)
* Drawing-angry face (students had to draw an angry face and write what feeling they have when they get angry)
* Spelling bee (vocabulary work)
* Acting out the verbs
* Making kids’ own word search according to the vocabulary of the book using web site: www. teach-nology.com

At the beginning of the lesson students and teacher introduced themselves and told what they like to do. In order to feel comfortable Zebo invited students to sit in a circle on the carpet, so that atmosphere would be relaxing. Then she and kids read, translated and discussed the book. After reading the book students discussed Sophie’s behavior and thought about their own behavior when they get angry what they do.

At the end of our event each kid got “GOOD JOB” stickers as an award for their activeness.

Zebo also brought Taiwanese bear by name Harika to introduce her to kids. The aim of this was to show kids what uniform Taiwanese students wear at school, share exchange project and kids told Harika the plot of the book they have read today. Now in Harika’s diary will a page about this event at ACQ-t, which will be read by Taiwanese students or submitted in the blog.

Results: kids got a good lesson how to behave when they get angry. Sophie from the book showed a good example how to keep the anger not hurting others. After reading this book they came and asked coordinator to give an advice what kind of books they should take from AC and read. By this request we reached the goal which was set before the event. Follow on activity was the word search which they made from the words they have learnt from the book (you can see it in attachment).

Quote of Davlatova Mahinbonu: “It’s a pleasure to meet with teacher Zebo. We had a great event today and liked reading the book. I didn’t want to let Harika go back!!!”

Learning about Jaw Fish

Learning about Jaw Fish

On January 31st we had guest an American Teacher Ms Anna from Washington state. She is ESL teacher for many years. She did for us many activities and we liked all. The most interesting was learning about Jaw fish. She showed us the the picture of male jaw fish how he carry on his mouth eggs for 5 days. She asked us to say what we see on the picture.
so heer what we said about the jaw fish male.
He is hero
he is defender
Her is brave.
He sacrafices his life
He is careful. He is model father to other fish.
Students told all about jaw fish and then told about the jaw fish. It was very inteersting for us to know how father cares about his future children without eating and drinking for 5 days.

we introduced our friend Harika to ms Anne.She participated in all our activities.
Ms Anna taught us some St Valentine activities. we liked her song and game.